RECESSES Short Film: What REALLY Happens When Kids' Emotions Are IGNORED? A Discussion with Dylan Trupiano

My guest today is writer/director Dylan Trupiano. His work has screened at festivals including Oscar-Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival and New/Next Film Festival. He was one of 50 directors from around the world selected for Playlab Films' Creators Lab in 2022.

RECESSES, the latest film from Dylan Trupiano, is currently making its way through the festival circuit after winning the Panavision New Filmmaker Grant.

Partly inspired by the director’s own experience from childhood and shot at his former elementary school, the short just screened at the Oscar-qualifying, HollyShorts Film Festival.

Ladies and gentlemen, RECESSES, the latest film from Dylan Trupiano, is a film presents a profound and introspective narrative centered on a Midwestern elementary school secretary, who waits with a student after being disciplined for an “inappropriate” drawing.

As their time together unfolds, the story delves into the emotional undercurrents of childhood trauma and repression, offering a nuanced reflection on the inner lives of children and the lingering impact of unaddressed pain. RECESSES is a very powerful and moving film and one that I hope will inspire conversations and lead both men and women with repressed trauma from their childhoods to come forward and start their healing journey. Thank you Dylan for an incredible film and sharing it with me today.

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